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excerpts from floridatoday.com...
Just after sunset Friday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket illuminated the Space Coast's dusk sky after an on-time liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The 7:38 p.m. EDT mission from Launch Complex 40 carried the SES 18 and 19 communications satellites to orbit for Luxembourg-based operator SES, then wrapped up with a drone ship landing in the Atlantic Ocean. It marked SpaceX's second flight of the day after a different Falcon 9 launch four hours prior from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, which boosted another batch of the company's Starlink internet satellites.
Once operational in orbit, the Florida-launched SES satellites will help to deliver data and digital television services to millions of homes across the United States. They'll spend the next several weeks raising their orbits to some 22,236 miles above Earth's surface.
Following stage separation, the Falcon 9 booster touched down on SpaceX’s drone ship Just Read The Instructions positioned about 420 miles east of Cape Canaveral.
